Nehemiah 5:3
“Some also there were that saide, We haue morgaged our landes, vineyards and houses, that we might buy corne, because of the dearth.”
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Nehemiah 5:3 Context
1And there was a great crie of the people, and of their wiues, against their brethren the Iewes. 2For there were that said, We, our sonnes, and our daughters are many: therefore wee take vp corne for them, that we may eat, and liue. 3Some also there were that saide, We haue morgaged our landes, vineyards and houses, that we might buy corne, because of the dearth. 4There were also that said, Wee haue borrowed money for the kings tribute, and that vpon our lands and vineyards. 5Yet now our flesh is as the flesh of our brethren, our children as their children: and loe, wee bring into bondage our sonnes and our daughters, to bee seruants, and some of our daughters are brought vnto bondage already, neither is it in our power to redeeme them: for other men haue our lands and vineyards.
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[Some] also there were that said, We have mortgaged our lands, vineyards, and houses, that we might buy corn, because of the dearth.
- King James Version
There were others who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our houses that we might get grain because of the famine."
- New American Standard Version (1995)